Again she looked over the manor then smiled as she saw a serving girl exiting the manor by the servants door. XXX Mary didn’t want to tell him that while she and Jim had been training and sparring, that she had a hard time staying ahead of him. Mary sighed when she told him it would be extra he had complained, then mentioned the incident with the Duke, it shut him up rather quick. Upon arriving she took the note from her pocket and handed it to the sentry turned and left they didn’t question her as she appeared as the emperor’s herald saying she was told to bring it there and return to the palace. “I am the Black Willow, I have been sent to collect what you owe others and to give you a warning, next time it will be your death and it
